Top 100 Make No Difference Quotes
#1. I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
Michael Bloomberg
#2. Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
Glen Duncan
#3. We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now ... won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?
Larry Brown
#4. Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
Woody Guthrie
#5. Don't try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can't is that nobody could. It's no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen!
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
#7. But there's a small percentage who are nothing but born predators. And for them, no amount of good parenting, quality schooling, or therapy sessions will ever make a bit of difference.
Marcia Clark
#8. I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.
Hollis Stacy
#9. The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.
Jeff Olson
#10. There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to.
Kelly J. Cogswell
#11. It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.
Alison Croggon
#12. There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
George Pierce Baker
#13. I used to act dumb. That act is no longer cute. Now, I would like to make a difference God has given me this new chance.
Paris Hilton
#14. From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.
Noah Feldman
#15. In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
Corita Kent
#16. Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.
D.L. Moody
#17. If these modern peoples could inflict the most barbaric treatment and persecution on another group of human beings, then there was something very, very deplorable with our species. No amount of education or technological progress was going to make any difference in altering human savagery.
Mitchell Diamond
#18. Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
#19. However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.
Isaac Asimov
#20. There was room for all of us in that drainpipe even with the snake there. But if you're not wanted, there's no amount of space that will make a difference.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#21. In this world of hate there has to be a light Be that light and spread some love Maybe this day the youth can make a difference, No more hate!
Christofer Drew
#22. If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right - it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.
Daniel Quinn
#23. There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
John Bolton
#24. No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#25. It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
Vernon Howard
#26. Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.
Michael Treanor
#27. And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded
Jodi Picoult
#28. When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life ... inspire them.
Shantel VanSanten
#29. So you try, and try, to move past it and forget about them, but it's like they're stuck in your head
you can't just flip a switch and stop loving them! So you hate yourself for it because you know it's no use, but nothing you do seems to ever make a difference.
Abby McDonald
#30. If [we] have no chosen the kingdom of God [first], it will make in the end no difference what [we] have chosen instead.
William Law
#31. If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
William Law
#32. It don't make no difference what is is, a woman'll buy anything she thinks a store is losin' money on.
Kin Hubbard
#33. I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.
Ann Curry
#34. There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
Stephen Covey
#35. I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .
Kevin Rudd
#36. She walks to a table
She walk to table
She is walking to a table
She walk to table now
What difference does it make
What difference it make
In Nature, no completeness
No sentence really complete thought
Language, like woman,
Look best when free, undressed.
Wang Ping
#37. When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.
E.B. White
#38. Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
Tim Ferriss
#39. You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
Franz Grillparzer
#40. I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
Paris Hilton
#41. Lead, follow - what difference does it make? It's all a choice. There's no escape in blame, no comfort in shirking responsibility. We all make choices. We must all face the consequences of those choices.
Wayne Thomas Batson
#42. Let us be honest
we have praised Angulimala,
will make no difference
If you convey my salute to Amrapali.
Suman Pokhrel
#43. My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.
Jeffrey Skoll
#44. There's no way out of this cycle, Daniel," Cam went on.
"She can't break it, and neither can you. Pick Heaven, pick Hell, I don't really care and you don't, either. It won't make any difference -
Lauren Kate
#45. There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
Mary Rose McGeady
#46. There is no difference between the person who wishes he can change his bad character and did not and the person who never wished for it. Wishes alone don't change the world!
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
William James
#48. There was no way to kiss her like a good boy. You could start out that way, but you always ended up on the other side of the tracks. If you hated her, it didn't make any difference; it worked just the same.
Charles Williams
#49. There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
Michael Lewis
#50. No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?
John Phillips
#51. There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.
Kathryn Bigelow
#52. God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.
Margaret Fell
#53. Jack, we gotta chance to make a difference in their lives. They need us. How can we go back to that big empty house knowing that these kids got no place to call home?
Randolph Randy Camp
#54. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen
#55. The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes - and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
Tom Clancy
#56. I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system. No esthetic choices are possible. Other people often make the photographs. It makes no difference.
Douglas Huebler
#57. As if one tiny choice by someone unimportant could make that much difference! History had to be a bit tougher than that. It all sprang back eventually, didn't it? He was sure he'd read something about that, somewhere. If it wasn't like that, no one would ever dare do anything.
Terry Pratchett
#58. East, West, South or North makes little difference. No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey, a journey within. If you travel within, you'll travel the whole wide world and beyond.
Elif Shafak
#59. I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.
Ettore Sottsass
#60. I won't lie - I don't care.
And you should quit trying to deceive yourself because I can tell by the way you show no desire to do anything but complain about the issue that you don't honestly care either.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#61. I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.
Sammy Sosa
#62. Hit don't make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o' churches. There's the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don't know what-all. I cain't see much difference to nary one of 'em. There's a good to all of 'em and there's a bad.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#63. My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you.
Bill Cosby
#64. No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.
Joyce Carol Oates
#65. Now is the time to commit to your "SELF" that there will be no playing small. You have gifts to give unto the world - and a difference to make.
Kami Guildner
#66. There's really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn't make a difference
because I'd just be running from myself, and you can't do that no matter how hard you
try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.
Pete Wentz
#67. Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.
John McCain
#68. Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
Madeleine L'Engle
#69. The nice thing about putting on your glasses in the dark is that you know you could see better if it were light, but since it is dark the glasses make no difference at all.
Nicholson Baker
#70. There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long
Frederick Lenz
#71. If he chose, he could help this girl, but what was the point of saving one little whore? It would make no difference to that vast, endless, tragic horde of broken children.
But as Jenny stared at him with great stark eyes, he knew that it would make a difference to her.
Mary Jo Putney
#72. No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.
Mario Van Peebles
#73. To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.
Charles De Lint
#74. What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers
and may not survive.
T.A. Barron
#75. Change comes with pain ... But this pain later becomes a gain. To explain it well, "no pain, no gain"! Endure the pain and make a difference!
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. People who have NO ambition to make a difference in this life should not interrupt the people who DO.
Tanya Masse
#77. Do not, for one second, allow people with closed minds and no ambition to make a difference in this life silence you or stop you from going above and beyond.
Tanya Masse
#78. A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.
Dot Richardson
#79. The pragmatic method starts from the postulate that there is no difference of truth that doesn't make a difference of fact somewhere; and it seeks to determine the meaning of all differences of opinion by making the discussion hinge as soon as possible upon some practical or particular issue.
William James
#80. I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
Jack Lew
#81. There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a hottest part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
Richard Davisson
#82. When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best to leave great footprints no matter what!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#83. What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.
Mark Batterson
#84. When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?
Milan Kundera
#85. I believe that each person can make a difference, but it's so slight that there's basically no point.
Lauren Lapkus
#86. I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.
Kenneth H. Cooper
#87. The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
Aristotle.
#88. Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
Bill Owens
#89. There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that ... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.
Brent Weeks
#90. A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time ... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.
Darren Shan
#91. So no I'm not perfect. I'm still as fucked up as I always was, the only difference is that now I'm happy with it. I accept it and make the best of it.
R.S. Burnett
#92. You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.
John Steinbeck
#93. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.
G.H. Hardy
#94. If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body.
M.F. Moonzajer
#95. I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.
Huston Smith
#96. 'You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.'
'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger.
'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.
Joseph Heller
#97. The sign at the door was written with a backward R, to make it look Russian, which caused a minor echo of panic. Was it a reference to Merchenko? No, surely Westwood knew the difference between Russia and Ukraine. But were there Ukrainian-themed bars, for a pedantic tormentor?
Lee Child
#98. If I truly loved a man, his fortune or lack of one would not make any difference to me. In any case, we cannot always choose with whom we fall in love. When it happens, it is not something we can just dismiss on a whim or tell to go away. There is no rhyme nor reason in matters of the heart.
Jane Odiwe
#99. Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environmentalism. The differences in degree are so great that they result in a radical difference in kind.
Edward Abbey
#100. There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
Cornel West
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